COMMISSIONERS ON TOUR: President Jean-Claude Juncker is in Portugal to meet Prime Minister António Costa and President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa. First Vice President Frans Timmermans is in Greece to receive the Grand Cross of the Phoenix medal and also an honorary doctorate from University of Athens. High Representative Federica Mogherini is in Italy to speak about European defense initiatives. Vice President Valdis Dombrovskis is in Estonia to meet leaders and give a speech on eurozone reform. Commissioner Pierre Moscovici meets Nick Clegg, the former U.K. deputy prime minister and leader of the Liberal Democrats, Kenneth Clarke MP and Andrew Adonis (all opponents of Brexit). Commissioner Phil Hogan is in Northern Ireland for the World Dairy Summit.

PARLIAMENT CLARIFICATION — ULRIKE LUNACEK TO LEAVE PARLIAMENT: In Friday’s Playbook we announced Heidi Hautala had replaced Ulrike Lunacek as Parliament vice president, though Lunacek remained an MEP. While that’s true until November 9, we may have given readers the impression Lunacek broke her promise to resign from Parliament when she stood in the Austrian election. That’s not the case — Lunacek is indeed leaving.

DIGITAL POLITICS — SILICON VALLEY ON SEINE: French President Emmanuel Macron is using state cash to foster tech startups, writes Mark Scott, and it’s starting to work. So far this year, French venture funds raised more cash compared to their British or German counterparts, while Macron has won plaudits for promoting startups as a solution to the country’s sluggish economic growth and double-digital rates of youth unemployment. But don’t be fooled; not everything is rosy in France’s tech scene, particularly when it comes to creating billion-euro startups and offering bumper profits to investors.

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TRADING DOWN — EU GLYPHOSATE BAN COULD DISRUPT GLOBAL TRADE: If the EU blocks its own farmers from using glyphosate, those same farmers could make it almost politically impossible for Europe to continue importing food grown using the herbicide, write Simon Marks and Giulia Paravicini.

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HARASSMENT SCANDALS SPREAD TO WESTMINSTER — MAY SAID TO BE IN DANGER …

Theresa May stands accused of ignoring Tory MPs’ sexual misconduct and allowing ministers facing allegations of wrongdoing to serve in her Cabinet. Guido published, with names redacted, a spreadsheet featuring 36 serving Tory MPs on a “dossier of shame” being circulated by junior party aides. The Sun reports May now fears for her government and may bring forward a Cabinet reshuffle in light of a growing set of harassment allegations, including against Mark Garnier, a minister at the international trade department, who the Mail on Sunday reports admitted calling his former secretary “sugar tits” and asking her to buy two vibrators at a Soho sex shop. The Sunday Times claims a serving minister placed his hand on the thigh of a female journalist and declared: “God, I love those tits.” Stephen Crabb, a married former Cabinet minister, apologized for “sexual chatter” with a teenager.

Madrid fires Catalonia’s EU ‘ambassador’: Amadeu Altafaj told Playbook he is one of more than 140 officials fired by the Spanish government. Unlike all of Catalonia’s delegations abroad, parts the EU delegation office have been retained by Madrid because of the technical nature of EU-related funding and other negotiations, but Altafaj’s role was considered political rather than technical.

Antonio Tajani says ‘No one will ever recognize Catalonia‘: The European Parliament president, speaking to reporters Saturday, said the EU’s position is very clear: “The referendum was illegal … The state of law should be restored,” and no EU country will recognize Catalonia as an independent country.

Asylum in Belgium for Puigdemont? Theo Francken,Belgium’s controversial state secretary for asylum and migration and a Flemish nationalist, told Flemish public broadcaster VRT that Carles Puigdemont, removed from office by the Spanish government last week, could apply for asylum in Belgium. Deputy Prime Minister Alexander De Croo shut him down, saying on Twitter such talk was unnecessary.

Graph — How Catalan attitudes have changed:In the past, support for autonomy rather than independence was the most popular position. The independence movement gained ground and peaked in 2013-14. Now the country is deeply divided with no majority for any approach, let alone independence. h/t Eduard Suarez.

GERMANS MAY BE PAID TO CONSUME ELECTRICITY: German power producers were poised to pay customers to use electricity this weekend. Wind generation was forecast to climb to a record on Sunday, Bloomberg reports, creating more output than needed and driving electricity prices below zero. It would be the first time this year the average price for a whole day is negative. h/t Zachery K. Bishop

FINLAND — ANOTHER LOOK AT NATO, WARY OF RUSSIA: With a presidential election in January, Reid Standish looks at how debate about Finnish neutrality is breaking out into the open after decades of studied silence. Moscow’s military assertiveness means the issue of NATO membership, while far from a likely outcome, is no longer taboo.

ICELAND — MESSY SNAP ELECTION: In a heavily fragmented vote, Prime Minister Bjarni Benediktsson’s coalition government appeared to have been defeated, leaving the Left-Green Movement’s Katrin Jakobsdottir, 41, “likely to get a chance to form a narrow majority in parliament,” according to Reuters. The People’s Party is poised to become Iceland’s first populist party to enter parliament with four seats.

Go green or else! The European Commission’s unusually swift move to prepare its Emissions Trading System (ETS) in case of an abrupt no-deal Brexit on March 29, 2019 sends a clear political message to London: We’ll protect our industries and flagship tool for cutting greenhouse gases — at your expense. Sara Stefanini has more for POLITICO Energy and Environment, Brexit and Transport Pros.

The Ex-Files 1: Catherine Day, President Juncker’s EU budget adviser and former secretary general of the European Commission, predicted in Dublin a Brexit deal is possible “unless the madmen intervene.” Bloomberg has more.

The Ex-Files 2: Martin Callanan, former chairman of the ECR group in the European Parliament, is now minister of state for exiting the European Union, replacing Joyce Anelay, the third minister to resign in four months from the UK’s Brexit department (David Jones and George Bridges also resigned). Anelay said she left because of the worsening of an injury sustained in 2015 while jumping out of a black hawk helicopter on an official visit to Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Over 100 devolved powers for Scotland after Brexit: David Mundell, the U.K. secretary of state for Scotland, aims to publish a list before Christmas of Brussels powers that will shift to Scotland after Brexit. The government hopes the list of 111 powers to be devolved to Holyrood will ease tensions with Scotland’s governing Scottish National Party, the Herald reports.

Martin Selmayr makes it to popular culture: Watch this clip of ‘Have I Got News For You’ (starting at 2:10). And check out the new podcast on his life and times by BBC Profile. h/t Conor Mescall

Opinion — Australians, interested but not fearful: Clouds hanging over the U.K.’s future relationship with the European Union haven’t hurt Australia’s largest investment bank Macquarie Group’s appetite for the country, according to its chief executive. “We are looking at Brexit with interest but not fear,” said Nic Moore. Meanwhile Alexander Downer, Australia’s high commissioner to the U.K. (and former foreign minister) writes on BrexitCentral: “We think it’s important that the EU and the U.K. both show leadership, by agreeing to a comprehensive, trade-liberalizing agreement.”

Opinion — UK is now the nasty country: Maria Farrell on how Britain no longer feels like home, and is working to turn itself into a nastier country.

READ TO LEAD — HOW TO BE A CEO: Adam Bryant in The New York Times on what he learned from interviewing 525 chief executives through his years writing the Corner Office column.

PODCAST DU JOUR: Towards a post-American Europe? Mark Leonard’s World in 30 Minutes podcast with Jan Techau, director of the Richard Holbrook Forum at the American Academy in Berlin.

BEYOND EUROPE

EUROPE HEADING FOR CLASH WITH US OVER IRAN: Ellie Geranmayeh for the European Council on Foreign Relations argues Iran is becoming the foreign policy focal point of Europe’s division with Trump’s America. She advises EU governments to prepare legal mechanisms to block renewed U.S. sanctions against Iran, and to work with Russia and China to preserve the core elements of the deal. Read the report.

SPAIN STEPS UP: Just when it looked like Spain had ceded ground to Catalonia in the PR wars, the Spanish embassy to the EU launched a #ProudToBeSpanish campaign. Vinces, a leading Spanish public affairs consultancy, will launch in Brussels November 13, rolling out with speeches by Spain’s Secretary of State for European Affairs Jorge Toledo Albiñana, former EEAS chief and ex-Permanent Representative of France to the EU Pierre Vimont, Bernardo Aguilera from Spanish industry association CEOE, and Elena Herrero-Beaumont, partner at Vinces and executive board member at Transparency International Spain.

CHANGING ROLES: Victoria Pierce is now on the press and public diplomacy team at the EU delegation to the U.S. She was previously a communications and digital assistant at the British embassy.

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